Reportage. Back on the career and political commitment of the ethnologist, Germaine TILLION, dean of the great resistance fighters and deportees, specialist of the Berber world, who just died at the age of 101. She had engaged in resistance and had denounced Stalinism and the exactions of the Algerian war. Commentary on archive images and interviews.
A report that portrays the four great men who will soon enter the Pantheon, chosen by François Hollande. They are two men, Pierre Brossolette and Jean Zay, and two women, Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz, all heroes of the resistance. Reminder of their lives. Comments, illustration images, archives, photographs.
Meeting with Simone CHAYE a 91-year-old woman from Dinan who, during the Second World War, saved many Jewish children whose parents had been deported. She was part of the movement "fraternity" in the resistance and created the "renewal" an association that always takes care of orphaned children. Today she received the Medal of the Righteous from the Ambassador of Israel to France. It is one of the highest Jewish distinctions.
Lucie AUBRAC had gone to see Klaus BARBIE and had used the enemy’s values to get her husband out of prison. The moral was reversed. Cheating and lying were values to be used to deceive the enemy. She was pregnant and looking for her fiancé, which did not deceive Klaus BARBIE whom she met twice.
Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz, president of the Association of Deportees and Internees of the Resistance, discusses the reasons for her entry into the Resistance.
Le lieutenant Joséphine Baker, célèbre auxiliaire féminine attachée à l'Armée de l'air aux côtés des Forces Françaises Libres pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, amène au commandant Dumesnil, directrice de l'Ecole du Corps Féminin des Transmissions de l'Air, un gros chèque destiné à la Résistance en France...
The Air Force’s female auxiliaries are engaged as volunteers to fight alongside the Free French Forces. Trained at the School of the Female Corps of Air Transmissions directed by Commander Alla DUMESNIL, the recruits are oriented towards different sectors, according to their abilities: transmissions; health service; interpreting; secretariat; transport, mechanics.
In England, French women volunteered to fight alongside the Free French Forces and to participate in the war effort against Germany. They are workers in weapons factories or engaged in the army bearing the Cross of Lorraine. Among them, many mothers entrusted their children to the care of a nursery, administered by the Association of French Volunteers, located near Ashford.
Après quatre ans dans la clandestinité, le 18 août 1944, Cécile Rol-Tanguy tape l'ordre de l'insurrection parisienne, dicté par son mari Henri Rol-Tanguy. Cet ordre aboutira huit jours plus tard à la Libération de la capitale. Cécile Rol-Tanguy est décédée le 8 mai 2020, à l'âge de 101 ans, le jour du 75e anniversaire de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Thanks in part to their involvement in the Resistance during the Occupation, the French women won the right to vote and stand for election on April 21, 1944. After the Liberation, women occupied their place in allied troops, had access to elective magistracies, and entered the political sphere. Four women jurors sit on the Court of Justice in Paris, women have become mayor, and the Union des femmes françaises, the result of the Women’s Committees of the Resistance, is holding its first major meeting. In Paris, images of a group of women soldiers, of the four women jurors of the Court of Justice. In a city hall, a woman mayor pronounces her first marriage. Images of the "first big meeting" of the Union des femmes françaises, extracts of the speeches of Claudine MICHAUT, "of the steering committee"; and of Marie BELL, of the French Comedy.
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